Quotes Vs Italics Apa

Apa has specific guidelines for the use of italics.

Quotes vs italics apa. Stand alone works include books legal cases movies magazines newspapers albums and plays. The publication manual of the american psychological association is. To introduce a word or phrase used as an ironic comment as slang or as an invented or coined expression. With some exceptions most style books tell us to use italics when we write the title of a work that stands alone as a single entity.

Titles of books journals and periodicals films and videos. To hedge or downplay meaning do not use any punctuation with these expressions. So italics and quotation marks make a title stand out. 91 let s take these cases one by one.

If you refer to the title of a source within your paper capitalize all words that are four letters long or greater within the title of a source. Ranged from 1 poor to 5 excellent a likert scale 1 strongly disagree to 5 strongly agree to refer to a numeral as itself because the meaning is sufficiently clear without quotation marks. Thereafter do not use quotation marks. In text citation capitalization quotes and italics underlining always capitalize proper nouns including author names and initials.

Use italics to highlight a letter word phrase or sentence as a linguistic example e g they clarified the distinction between farther and further. For example if you were writing the sentence i read the cat in the hat it wouldn t necessarily be clear what the book title was or even that there was a book title at all. The numeral 2 was displayed onscreen. If you add emphasis to a direct quotation place the words emphasis added in square brackets after the words you have italicized.

An ironic comment is one that means something other than often the opposite of what it says. Italics are used to draw attention to key terms and phrases when providing definitions and to format parts of reference list entries. As a general rule use italics sparingly. Quotation marks are used to present linguistic examples and titles of book chapters and articles in the text.

Quotation marks when the work is part of a stand alone work. You can find them in section 4 21 of the sixth edition of the apa manual.